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UNDECEMBER: A beginner's guide to hacking and slashing your way through this stunning ARPG

UNDECEMBER: A beginner's guide to hacking and slashing your way through this stunning ARPG

UNDECEMBER thrusts players into a grimdark fantasy world where they'll have to do everything in their power to stop the Evil God Serpens from rising and bringing death and destruction into the world. Developed by Needs Games and serviced by LINE Games, the free-to-play multiplatform ARPG boasts adrenaline-pumping hack-and-slash action along with a classless system and stunning visuals built with Unreal Engine 4.

As players step into the fantasy world of Traum, here are just some of the key points to focus on when starting out.

Classless characters and build diversity

Since you're free to craft the kind of character you want with true freedom, it may seem overwhelming at first when you're trying to decide who you want to be. It's important to remember that you can experiment with the different combinations without any restrictions until you find the style that suits you best.

The Gears can be Melee, Bow or Magic, while the Runes are divided into Skill Runes and Link Runes. There's also a deep Zodiac system where you can tinker around with your Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence after you pick whether you want your avatar to be male or female.

Runes, on the other hand, can be Skill Runes or Link Runes. The former has up to 6 sides open in green, blue or red while the latter can be attached to a Skill Rune depending on its matching colour.

Runes and Zodiacs

Your active skills will depend on your Skill Runes and your supplementary buffs will depend on your Link Runes. You can earn these by hunting monsters and reaping various rewards from quests - in the same vein, you can upgrade and level up your Runes based on materials or loot your earn.

When you attach a supplementary Link Rune to an active Skill Rune, you need to match the colours properly in Red (STR), Green (DEX) and Blue (INT). These have various effects that help you in combat, but as you level them up, they will also have progressively higher stat point allocations and mana costs. Keep in mind that you can disassemble Runes you don't need as well to get materials in return. You can use the Rune Enchant system to upgrade your rune grades across Normal, Magic, Rare, and Legendary using Rune Essence.

On the other hand, the Zodiac system shows you your First Growth Axis and the Second Growth Axis, which are trait points that offer you passive boons. Each time you level up, you earn Stat and Trait Points - you can use the former to boost your STR, DEX and INT while you can use the latter to supplement skill effects. If you happen to stumble upon some extra Gold or Stardust of Oblivion, you can use these to reset your Zodiac when you make a mistake.

Enchanting your gear

When it comes to your equipment, you can experiment with three types - weapon, armor, and accessory. Gears have specific level and stat conditions, with varying level, grade, and quality as well. You can enchant your gears via the blacksmith NPC in the village if you have enough materials.

In particular, the Gear Enchant system lets you use Essence - earned while farming or disassembling - to boost the grade of your gear or switch its options. The Essence will determine the random outcome of your gear enchant - all these with the exception of Unique Gears that have fixed basic attributes and options.

Main campaign and Chaos Dungeon

The single-player campaign offers 5 Acts per Episode, with progressively more difficult stages as players go through the game. While battles become more challenging, the loot you can farm also becomes more valuable, which is why you have the option to party up with others to help make the journey more pleasant and to increase the loot by 300% (although multiplayer modes will increase the difficulty as well).

If you're looking for something else to keep you busy apart from the main campaign, you can put your skills to the test in the Chaos Dungeon by using a Chaos Card at the Chaos Statue in the village. Here, you'll clear monsters until you reach the boss room either alone or with your online buddies.

You'll only need one Chaos Card even if you're heading inside as a party. These cards are classified into Normal, Magic, Rare, Unique grades and options and will determine the loot you can get as well as the passives and difficulty levels. Clearing the dungeon will reward you with EXP that you can use to level up your Chaos Statue.

Other multiplayer content

The co-op Raid lets 8 players take down bosses with varying elemental types twice a week. The Spire of Barrier, on the other hand, lets a party of 4 survive against hordes of monsters in waves. If you keep at it, you might just score content-exclusive supporting Rune orbs that can boost your survivability.

As for the Void Rift, you can enter this once you clear Episode 2 to challenge campaign bosses a second time for bountiful rewards. You can also follow the tutorial quests at Saluto to unlock Relic, where you can summon a cool Avatar that has its own Passive Skills, Active skills, and Link Skills. Don't forget to level them up with the Light of Life item up to level 30.

Finally, players can join a guild of up to 50 players to take advantage of Guild Passives and items from the Guild Shop. You can also dabble in a little bit of trading at the Auction House using your Rubies.

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